Ease of offline campaigns.

Deepa Hegde
2 min readJan 23, 2020

Offline campaigns are marketing strategies that use offline media channels to create awareness of a company’s products and services. So any promotion or advertisement done outside the internet contributes to an offline marketing campaign.

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Offline campaigns use traditional marketing techniques for branding. This includes TV ads, billboards, print ads, radio, pamphlets, cold calls, networking events, and marketing drives.

What are the benefits of offline campaigns:-

1. Easy to handle- print advertising is one example of an offline campaign. Print advertising is easy to handle and deliver. Even on short notice brochures, pamphlets, business cards can be printed and distributed easily.

2. Good for huge campaigns and rally- other benefits of print ads are billboards and signage, these can be used to create brand awareness especially during social causes, marathons, political rally’s, etc.

3. Budget-friendly- print advertising is highly cost-effective. It is easy to get done and not very expensive. You are able to know how much you need. You can always order more if there is a shortage. Hence you not spending unnecessarily.

4. More impactful and impressive- during marketing events, your brand’s booth can be made as creative and as impressive as you want. This helps customers to remember your brand better and creates a greater impact.

5. Loyalty programs- one of the main features of offline campaigns is loyalty programs. Through them, you can retain your loyal customers and make them feel important.

6. More options- when you choose offline campaigns, you have more options to choose as to which marketing technique is suitable based on your target customer group.

7. Something tangible- offline campaigns always give customers something tangible to take back with them. This helps the brand to be in memory for a longer time as compared to some ads that come up on the internet.

8. Better relationship- in most offline campaigns you are directly interacting with your customers. Hence your building a bond and a long term relationship with them.

9. More loyal customers- since customers get to feel your products and have a relationship with your promoters, this leads to customers being more loyal and sticking with your brand.

10. A more personalized- the offline campaign is a more personalized approach as your direct marketing your brand, this helps customers to feel more important and loyal towards the brand.

These were the few benefits of using offline campaigns. As we can see, these techniques are something which most people can relate too, hence offline campaigns are always advisable. Also, there is still a percentage of people who don’t use the internet. Also, many who use the internet don’t bother about promotional emails and adverts. This is where offline campaigns have an upper hand. Thus offline campaigns are the best solution to ensure brand awareness is created for a larger group of customers.

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Deepa Hegde

I am business editor at Medium, mainly on technology and employment. When I don’t write, I love reading bestsellers, tracking fashion trends & listening music.